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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Crimson, down 1-0 and then 2-1 in the match, was on the brink of blemishing its untarnished league record...

Author: By Daniel E. Fernandez, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Silent Warrior: Pankau Leads M. Volleyball to Success | 2/17/2000 | See Source »

...with managed care's unwillingness to compensate them fully, are rebelling against providing voluntary, on-call backup, a critical component of the ED system. To keep them on duty, some hospitals have to fork out $1,000 daily bonuses to neurosurgeons and orthopedists. "We are on the brink of an implosion," cautions Dr. Loren Johnson, director of the ED at Sutter-Davis Hospital in Davis, Calif., and co-chair of an industry task force that investigated the problem. The state lacks the capacity to handle a major catastrophe, like an earthquake or forest fire, a report by the California emergency...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critical Condition | 1/31/2000 | See Source »

...forlornness of game show prodigy Stanley Spector like the best of character actors, depicting impeccably the angst of a child sequestered from the world by the curse of genius. And Walters, who has heretofore been relegated to the margins of Anderson's films, is devastating as the coked-up, brink-of-breakdown Claudia, who can't stand to be loved because she thinks so lowly of herself. That's not all, though; the magnificent Hall is also in top form, as is Hoffman. And Reilly. And Cruise. And so on, all the way down the line of supporting roles...

Author: By Rajesh Kottamasu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Magnolia: Petal to the Mettle: P.T. Anderson's circus of dysfunction is worthy of P.T. Barnum | 1/14/2000 | See Source »

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